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Stamp collecting

Index Stamp collecting

Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. [1]

267 relations: Airmail, Airmail stamp, Albert Fryar, Albert W. Hilchey, Alexander Thomas Cameron, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, American Philatelic Society, Angelo DiGeorge, Apollo 15 postage stamp incident, Aquarium, Arthur Pink, Artistamp, Asian philately, Émile Cohl, Baltimore Philatelic Society, Banknote, Barry K. Schwartz, Bell Syndicate, Blubber (novel), British Philatelic Bulletin, Bruce Conde, Bruce McAllister, Bugs Bunny, Button collecting, Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper, Cancelled-to-order, Carbon tetrachloride, Charles C. Cratsenberg, Charles Foster Richards, Child pornography, Chinchen Collection, Christmas stamp, Civic Center, Manhattan, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Commemorative stamp, Congress of the French Parliament, Creighton C. Hart, Daffy Duck for President, David Brudnoy, David D. Caldwell, David Ivar Swanson, Definitive stamp, Dekalog: Ten, Discworld, Discworld characters, Donald W. Martin, Dorothy B. Blaney, Economic bubble, Economy of Niue, Edward J. Nankivell, ..., Edward Stanley Gibbons, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Elliott Perry, Elvis Presley Forever stamp, Emirate of Sharjah, Erik F. Hurt, Ernest Anthony Kehr, Ernest de Silva, Eugene Klein (philatelist), Ezra Danolds Cole, Federal Duck Stamp, Felix Bloch (diplomatic officer), Festiniog Railway Letter Service, Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Issues Collectors Club, Florida Stamp Dealers Association, Fourth Bureau issue, Frederik Klokker, Gary Ackerman, Gawaine Baillie, George V, George Ward Linn, Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster, Ginny Lloyd, Great Americans series, Great Britain commemorative stamps 1970–79, Great Britain commemorative stamps 1980–89, Great Britain commemorative stamps 1990–99, Great Britain commemorative stamps 2000–09, Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–19, Harold Weekes, Harry Weiss (philatelist), Hawaiian Philatelic Society, Headsville, West Virginia, Henri Max Corwin, Henry J. Duveen, Henry Stolow, Hobby, Holiday stamp, Hot Wheels, Howard Marks, Hugh Massey Clark, Illegal stamps, Index of philatelic articles, Invert error, Inverted Jenny, Janusz Kaluski, Jean-Baptiste Moens, Jim's Journal, John Alexander Tilleard, John D. Rockerduck, John Edward Gray, John Marriott (philatelist), John Quade, John Robert Boker Jr., Joint issue, Joseph Hackmey, Joseph M. Clary, Jungle green, Karl Gordon Henize, Kenneth Griffith, Kiloware, L'Écho de la timbrologie, Lavender (color), Lawrence Block, Lawrence L. Shenfield, Leonard Kapiloff, Linn's Stamp News, List of British innovations and discoveries, List of Case Closed volumes (21–40), List of collectables, List of English inventions and discoveries, List of entities that have issued postage stamps (A–E), List of entities that have issued postage stamps (F–L), List of entities that have issued postage stamps (M–Z), List of hobbies, List of Malaysian stamps, List of people on the postage stamps of Aden, List of people on the postage stamps of Malta, List of philatelic bureaus, List of postage stamps of India, List of United Kingdom commemorative stamps, Louis Jay Heath, Louis Yvert, Loupe, Mail, Margaret Suckley, Martial Caillebotte, Martin A. Armstrong, Matthew H. Gore, Meinhard Michael Moser, Merit badge (Boy Scouts of America), Michael Sefi, Miniature sheet, Minnesota State Fair, Model car, Mu Zang, Muhammad Hanif Ansari, Museo del Objeto del Objeto, Mystic Stamp Company, Nancy B. Clark, Nassau Street (Manhattan), Natalya Kaspersky, National Philatelic Museum, Nuclear Jellyfish, Oscar Berger-Levrault, Oskar Gröning, Overprint, Paradox of hedonism, Peak bagging, Penny Black, Penny Red, People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR, Philatelic cover, Philatelic International, Philatelic Society of Pittsburgh, Philately, Philip Mathias Wolsieffer, Philipp von Ferrary, PHQ card, Plate number, Post & Tele Museum, Postage due, Postage stamp, Postage stamp design, Postage stamp paper, Postage stamp reprint, Postage stamp separation, Postage stamps and postal history of Afghanistan, Postage stamps and postal history of Armenia, Postage stamps and postal history of Australia, Postage stamps and postal history of Tannu Tuva, Postage stamps and postal history of Tanzania, Postage stamps and postal history of the Indian states, Postage stamps of Ireland, Postal history, Postcard, Presentation pack, Presidential Issue, Primitive (philately), Quick Before They Catch Us, Robert Masterman Stainforth, Robert Obojski, Robert Zoellner, Rotary printing press, Sacramento Philatelic Society, Sadettin Dilbilgen, Sadie Peterson Delaney, San Jose Stamp Club, Sarah Logan Wister Starr, Scandinavia Philatelic Society, Scandinavian Collectors Club, Scott catalogue, Scouts on Stamps Society International, Self-adhesive stamp, Semi-postal stamp, Sharjah, Sheet of stamps, Sigmund Friedl, Simon Garfield, Singapore Philatelic Museum, Sir John Wilson, 2nd Baronet, South Miami Stamp Club, Soviet Philatelist, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Spring bud, Stamp album, Stamp catalog, Stamp Collecting (magazine), Stamp condition, Stamp dealer, Stamp hinge, Stamp tongs, Stamper brothers, Stamps on stamps, Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers, Stewart Island, Stockbook, SubTropolis, Tamotsu Murayama, Test stamp, Théodule Tellier, The Koala Brothers, The New Statesman, The Second Invasion from Mars, The Stamp Collector, The Stamp Collector's Record, The Wrecker (Stevenson novel), Theresa Maria Clark, Thomas Tapling, Timbres magazine, Topical stamp collecting, Training stamp, Transportation coils, Turkey, North Carolina, Tweezers, U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13, U.S. Special Delivery (postal service), United States Post Office (Patchogue, New York), United States Post Office (Riverhead, New York), Upside Down (2012 film), US Regular Issues of 1922–31, Vickrey auction, Victor E. Engstrom, Victor Guazzelli, Violet (Peanuts), W. Hamilton Barnum, W. Wilson Hulme II, Walter A. Coslet, Walter J. D. Annand, Walter R. McCoy, Washington Stamp Collectors Club, William Penn Brown, Wine Post, Wish list, Yvert et Tellier, 1935 Irish 2d coil stamp. Expand index (217 more) »

Airmail

Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air.

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Airmail stamp

An airmail stamp is a postage stamp intended to pay either an airmail fee that is charged in addition to the surface rate, or the full airmail rate, for an item of mail to be transported by air.

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Albert Fryar

Albert Edmund Fryar (2 December 1875 – 23 July 1944) was a noted South Australian philatelists of the British Empire and prominent sportsman.

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Albert W. Hilchey

Albert W. Hilchey was an expert on the revenue stamps of South America and Liberia.

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Alexander Thomas Cameron

Alexander Thomas Cameron (1882 – 25 September 1947) was a British-born Canadian biochemist.

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Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Alfred (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 184430 July 1900) reigned as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900.

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American Philatelic Society

The American Philatelic Society (APS) is the largest nonprofit stamp collecting Foundation of philately in the world.

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Angelo DiGeorge

Angelo M. DiGeorge (April 15, 1921 – October 11, 2009) was an Italian American physician and pediatric endocrinologist who is renowned for his research on an autosomal dominant immunodeficiency now commonly referred to as DiGeorge syndrome.

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Apollo 15 postage stamp incident

The crew of Apollo 15 (1971) took several hundred commemorative postage stamp covers into space with them, not all of which were listed on NASA's manifests.

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Aquarium

An aquarium (plural: aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed.

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Arthur Pink

Arthur Walkington Pink (1 April 1886 – 15 July 1952) was an English Bible teacher who sparked a renewed interest in the exposition of Calvinism.

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Artistamp

The term artistamp (a portmanteau of the words "artist" and "stamp") or artist's stamp refers to a postage stamp-like art form used to depict or commemorate any subject its creator chooses.

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Asian philately

Asian philately, or Far-Eastern philately, is a specialized area of philately which focuses on the stamps of China, Japan, Hong Kong and neighboring countries.

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Émile Cohl

Émile Cohl (January 4, 1857 – January 20, 1938), born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet, was a French caricaturist of the largely forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon" and "The Oldest Parisian".

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Baltimore Philatelic Society

The Baltimore Philatelic Society (B.P.S.) is one of the oldest philatelic societies in the United States, established in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1889.

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Banknote

A banknote (often known as a bill, paper money, or simply a note) is a type of negotiable promissory note, made by a bank, payable to the bearer on demand.

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Barry K. Schwartz

Barry K. Schwartz (born May 25, 1942 in New York City) is an American businessman, Thoroughbred racehorse owner, and a former horse racing industry executive.

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Bell Syndicate

The Bell Syndicate, launched in 1916 by editor-publisher John Neville Wheeler, was an American syndicate that distributed columns, fiction, feature articles and comic strips to newspapers for decades.

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Blubber (novel)

Blubber is a young adult novel by Judy Blume first published in 1974.

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British Philatelic Bulletin

The British Philatelic Bulletin is the official publication of the Royal Mail aimed at stamp collectors.

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Bruce Conde

Bruce Conde (aka Bruce Alsono Bourbon de Conde, aka Alfonso Yorba) (5 December 1913 – 19 July 1992) was a US Army officer, stamp collector, royal imposter, and a general for Royalist forces during the North Yemen Civil War.

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Bruce McAllister

Bruce McAllister (born in 1946) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.

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Button collecting

Button collecting may refer to the collecting of various types of buttons.

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Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper

The 2¢ Large Queen on laid paper is the rarest postage stamp of Canada.

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Cancelled-to-order

A cancelled to order (also called and abbreviated CTO) postage stamp is a stamp the issuing postal service has cancelled (marked as used), but has not traveled through the post,Bennett, Russell and Watson, James; Philatelic Terms Illustrated, Stanley Gibbons Publications, London (1978).

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Carbon tetrachloride

Carbon tetrachloride, also known by many other names (the most notable being tetrachloromethane, also recognized by the IUPAC, carbon tet in the cleaning industry, Halon-104 in firefighting, and Refrigerant-10 in HVACR) is an organic compound with the chemical formula CCl4.

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Charles C. Cratsenberg

Charles C. Cratsenberg (August 1, 1903 – January 27, 1995), of Illinois and Arizona, was a dedicated stamp collector who served philately by active participation in major philatelic organizations.

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Charles Foster Richards

Charles Foster Richards (July 9, 1866 – November 29, 1944), of New York City, was a lifelong stamp collector and a charter member of the American Philatelic Association (now called the American Philatelic Society).

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Child pornography

Child pornography is pornography that exploits children for sexual stimulation.

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Chinchen Collection

The Chinchen Collection is a collection of stamps, proofs, artwork and covers from Lundy Island donated by Barry Chinchen to the British Library Philatelic Collections in 1977 and is located at the British Library.

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Christmas stamp

A Christmas stamp is a postage stamp with a Christmas theme, intended for use on seasonal mail such as Christmas cards.

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Civic Center, Manhattan

The Civic Center is the area of lower Manhattan, New York City, that encompasses New York City Hall, One Police Plaza, the courthouses in Foley Square, and the surrounding area.

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Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York City, also known simply as GSAPP, is regarded as one of the most important and prestigious architecture schools in the world.

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Commemorative stamp

A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp, often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honor or commemorate a place, event, person, or object.

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Congress of the French Parliament

The Congress of the French Parliament (Congrès du Parlement français) is the name given to the body created when both houses of the present-day French Parliament—the National Assembly and the Senate—meet at the Palace of Versailles to vote on revisions to the Constitution or to listen to an address by the President of the French Republic.

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Creighton C. Hart

Creighton C. Hart (February 22, 1906 – March 1, 1993), of Missouri, was a stamp collector and a writer of philatelic articles on specific niches of United States postage stamp collecting.

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Daffy Duck for President

Daffy Duck for President is a children's book, published by Warner Bros. and the United States Postal Service in 1997 to coincide with the release of the first Bugs Bunny U.S. postage stamp.

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David Brudnoy

David Barry Brudnoy (June 5, 1940 – December 9, 2004) was an American talk radio host in Boston from 1976 to 2004.

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David D. Caldwell

Judge David D. Caldwell (January 5, 1870 – March 5, 1953), of Washington, D.C., was a noted philatelist known to his stamp collecting friends as ““Washington's Number One Philatelist.”.

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David Ivar Swanson

David Ivar Swanson (September 14, 1884 – April 8, 1950) was an Illinois state representative (Republican Party).

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Definitive stamp

A definitive stamp is a postage stamp that is part of the regular issue of a country's stamps, available for sale by the post office for an extended period of time and designed to serve the everyday postal needs of the country.

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Dekalog: Ten

Dekalog: Ten (Polish: Dekalog, dziesięć) is the tenth part of the television series Dekalog by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, connected to the tenth imperative of the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not covet." In contrast to the bleak tone of the other episodes in the series, Dekalog X is a black comedy.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), set on the fictional Discworld, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.

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Discworld characters

This article contains brief biographies for characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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Donald W. Martin

Donald W. Martin (September 24, 1890 – April 3, 1952), of Cleveland, Ohio, was a philatelist who helped organize stamp collecting as a hobby in the Cleveland area.

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Dorothy B. Blaney

Dorothy B. Blaney (June 29, 1921 – May 12, 1998), of Pennsylvania, was the postmaster of Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, who became a leading advocate for encouraging youths to become stamp collectors.

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Economic bubble

An economic bubble or asset bubble (sometimes also referred to as a speculative bubble, a market bubble, a price bubble, a financial bubble, a speculative mania, or a balloon) is trade in an asset at a price or price range that strongly exceeds the asset's intrinsic value.

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Economy of Niue

The economy of Niue is heavily dependent upon aid from New Zealand.

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Edward J. Nankivell

Edward James Nankivell (1848–1909) was a respected member of the Institute of Journalists in London and an avid early stamp collector.

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Edward Stanley Gibbons

Edward Stanley Gibbons (21 June 1840 – 17 February 1913) was an English stamp dealer and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd, publishers of the famous Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue and other stamp-related books and magazines.

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Edwin Palmer Hoyt

Edwin Palmer Hoyt (August 5, 1923 – July 29, 2005) was an American writer who specialized in military history.

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Elliott Perry

Elliott Perry (December 30, 1884 – September 27, 1972), of New Jersey, was a researcher and expert on postage stamps and postal history of the United States.

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Elvis Presley Forever stamp

The Elvis Presley Forever postage stamp is a part of the Music Icons series issued by the United States Postal Service.

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Emirate of Sharjah

The Emirate of Sharjah (الشارقة) is one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates.

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Erik F. Hurt

Erik F. Hurt (1890–1952), of England, was a philatelist named to the Hall of Fame of the American Philatelic Society.

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Ernest Anthony Kehr

Ernest Anthony Kehr (September 10, 1911 – November 13, 1986), of New York City, was a promoter and spokesman of stamp collecting, creating interest for the hobby using all media at the time, including radio, television, books, articles and newspapers columns devoted to philately; an American philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1975.

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Ernest de Silva

Sir Ernest de Silva (26 November 1887 – 9 May 1957) was a Ceylonese business magnate, banker, barrister and public figure, considered to be the most prominent Ceylonese philanthropist of the 20th century.

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Eugene Klein (philatelist)

Eugene Klein (June 26, 1878 – April 30, 1944) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was an internationally known stamp collector, stamp dealer, and auctioneer who was President of the American Philatelic Society from 1935 to 1937.

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Ezra Danolds Cole

Ezra Danolds Cole (November 19, 1902 – August 8, 1992), of Nyack, New York, was well known stamp dealer who was named to the Hall of Fame of the American Philatelic Society.

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Federal Duck Stamp

The Federal Duck Stamp, formally known as the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, is an adhesive stamp issued by the United States federal government that must be purchased prior to hunting for migratory waterfowl such as ducks and geese.

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Felix Bloch (diplomatic officer)

Felix Bloch (born 19 July 1935) is a former director of European and Canadian Affairs in the United States Department of State.

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Festiniog Railway Letter Service

The Festiniog Railway Letter Service is an officially authorised service within the United Kingdom railway system for posting and transmission of letters, and under certain circumstances also delivering the letters directly to intended recipients.

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Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis

Fiennes Neil Wykeham Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, OBE, DL (29 June 1921 – 6 March 2010) was a British peer.

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First Issues Collectors Club

First Issues Collectors Club, or FICC, is an international society for collectors of the first postage stamps issued by any legitimate postal administration.

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Florida Stamp Dealers Association

The Florida Stamp Dealers Association (FSDA) is a philatelic organization consisting of stamp dealers in the Florida area.

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Fourth Bureau issue

The Fourth Bureau Issue, also known as the Series of 1922, was a definitive series of postage stamps issued by the United States between 1922 and 1938.

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Frederik Klokker

Frederik Andreas Klokker (born 13 March 1983) is a Danish cricketer.

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Gary Ackerman

Gary Leonard Ackerman (born November 19, 1942) is a retired American politician and former U.S. Representative from New York, serving from 1983 to 2013.

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Gawaine Baillie

Sir Gawaine George Hope Baillie, 7th Baronet (8 March 1934 – 21 December 2003) was an amateur motor racing driver, engineer, industrialist, stamp collector, and the owner of the estate surrounding Leeds Castle, the ancient fortress in Kent.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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George Ward Linn

George Ward Linn (February 7, 1884 – March 28, 1966), of Ohio, was a philatelist who published philatelic literature extensively and was the founder of Linn's Weekly Stamp News in 1928, the philatelic journal for which he is most famous.

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Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster

Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster (16 August 1851 – 1 December 1893) was an Irish peer.

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Ginny Lloyd

Ginny Lloyd (born 1945, Maryland, US) is an American artist, noted for her work with mail art, photocopy art, performance art and photography.

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Great Americans series

The Great Americans series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service, starting on December 27, 1980 with the 19¢ stamp depicting Sequoyah, and continuing through 1999, the final stamp being the 55¢ Justin S. Morrill self-adhesive stamp.

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Great Britain commemorative stamps 1970–79

Commemorative stamps, postage stamps issued to honor or commemorate a place, event or person, have been released by Great Britain since 1970.

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Great Britain commemorative stamps 1980–89

Commemorative stamps, which are postage stamps issued to honor or commemorate a place, event or person, have been released by Great Britain since 1924.

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Great Britain commemorative stamps 1990–99

Commemorative stamps, postage stamps issued to honor or commemorate a place, event or person, have been released by Great Britain since 1924.

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Great Britain commemorative stamps 2000–09

A list of Great Britain commemorative stamps 2000–2009.

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Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–19

This is a list of Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–2019.

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Harold Weekes

Harold Hathaway Weekes (April 2, 1880 – July 6, 1950) was an American college football player.

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Harry Weiss (philatelist)

Harry Weiss (July 24, 1888 – July 23, 1966) of Illinois, was a philatelist who spent most of his philatelic career writing on the subject of stamp collecting.

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Hawaiian Philatelic Society

The Hawaiian Philatelic Society is an organization for stamp collectors to meet, exchange philatelic information, and auction their duplicate postage stamps.

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Headsville, West Virginia

Headsville is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.

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Henri Max Corwin

Henri Max Corwin (1903 in Oldenzaal, Overijssel – January 1962) was a Dutch businessman, philatelist and humanitarian.

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Henry J. Duveen

Henry Joseph Duveen (26 October 1854Bierman, Stanley M. The World's Greatest Stamp Collectors. New York: Frederick Fell Publishers Inc., 1981, p. 90. – 15 January 1919) was an art dealer who co-founded the firm of Duveen Brothers with his sibling the first Sir Joseph Joel Duveen; after his brother's death from Bright's disease in 1908 his nephew, the future Lord Duveen, worked alongside his uncle.

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Henry Stolow

Henry Stolow (Latvian: Henrijs Stolovs/Heinrihs Stolovs) (Born 1901 in Riga, Latvia – Died 1971) was a stamp dealer in Berlin, New York, and Munich who was behind the issue of numerous stamps of doubtful validity.

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Hobby

A hobby is a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time.

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Holiday stamp

Holiday stamps are a type of postage stamp issued to commemorate a particular religious festival or holiday.

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Hot Wheels

Hot Wheels is a brand of 1:64, 1:43, 1:18 and 1:50 scale die-cast toy cars introduced by American toy maker Mattel in 1968.

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Howard Marks

Dennis Howard Marks (13 August 1945 – 10 April 2016) was a Welsh drug smuggler and author who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases.

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Hugh Massey Clark

Hugh Massey Clark (21 January 1886 – 21 January 1956), of New York City, was a noted philatelist and publisher.

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Illegal stamps

Illegal stamps are postage stamp-like labels issued in the names of existing independent countries or territories used to defraud postal administrations, stamp collectors, and the general public.

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Index of philatelic articles

This is a list of philatelic topics.

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Invert error

In philately, an invert error occurs when part of a postage stamp is printed upside-down.

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Inverted Jenny

The Inverted Jenny (also known as an Upside Down Jenny, Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp first issued on May 10, 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design is printed upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American philately.

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Janusz Kaluski

Janusz Marja Stefan Rogala Kaluski (1924"Stamp of a Nation" in Stamp Lover, Vol. 95, December 2003, p.163.–2010) was a sapper in the Polish Army who took part in the D-Day landings of World War II and who later won the Cross of Valour.

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Jean-Baptiste Moens

Jean-Baptiste Philippe Constant Moens (27 May 1833, Tournai – 28 April 1908) was a Belgian philatelist recognized as the first dealer in stamps for collectors.

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Jim's Journal

Jim's Journal is a comic strip written and drawn by Scott Dikkers, co-founder of The Onion.

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John Alexander Tilleard

John Alexander Tilleard (born circa 1850, died 22 September 1913) was a British solicitor and the philatelist who was the first curator of the Royal Philatelic Collection.

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John D. Rockerduck

John Davison Rockerduck is a fictional character from the Duck universe.

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John Edward Gray

John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.

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John Marriott (philatelist)

Sir John Brook Marriott KCVO (27 July 1922Bateman, Robert. Stamp collectors' who's who. London: Stanley Gibbons, 1960, p. 59. in Stretford – 3 July 2001 in Godalming"Obituary: Sir John Marriott" by Francis Kiddle in The Independent, 17 July 2001.) was a British teacher and philatelist.

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John Quade

John William Saunders III (April 1, 1938 – August 9, 2009), better known by the stage name John Quade, was an American character actor who starred in film and in television.

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John Robert Boker Jr.

John Robert Boker Jr. (January 29, 1913 – April 12, 2003), of New York City, was a philatelist who amassed some of the most prestigious collections of 19th century stamps ever seen by stamp collectors.

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Joint issue

A joint issue is the release of stamps or postal stationery by two or more countries to commemorate the same topic, event or person.

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Joseph Hackmey

Joseph D. Hackmey is an Israeli businessman, insurance company executive, actuary, investor, and an art and stamp collector.

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Joseph M. Clary

Joseph M. Clary (January 18, 1905 – August 8, 1996), of San Francisco, California, was a philatelist who dedicated himself to the advancement of the hobby of stamp collecting in California and on a national scale.

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Jungle green

Jungle green is a color that is a rich tone of medium spring green.

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Karl Gordon Henize

Karl Gordon Henize, Ph.D. (2004 News Releases, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California (US), March 8, 2004 17 October 1926 – 5 October 1993) was an American astronomer, space scientist, NASA astronaut, and professor at Northwestern University.

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Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Reginald Griffiths, known professionally as Kenneth Griffith (12 October 1921 – 25 June 2006) was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.

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Kiloware

Kiloware is a term for packages of postage stamps sold to stamp collectors by weight rather than by quantity, often in kilograms, hence the name.

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L'Écho de la timbrologie

L'Écho de la timbrologie is a French monthly magazine about philately and stamp collecting.

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Lavender (color)

Lavender is a light purple.

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Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr.

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Lawrence L. Shenfield

Lawrence Lewis "Larry" Shenfield (October 5, 1891 – October 9, 1974) was an advertising executive who was instrumental in promoting the development of radio broadcasting during its golden age of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Leonard Kapiloff

Dr.

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Linn's Stamp News

Linn's Stamp News is an American weekly magazine for stamp collectors.

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List of British innovations and discoveries

The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including predecessor states in the history of the formation of the United Kingdom.

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List of Case Closed volumes (21–40)

Tankōbon volume 21 to volume 40 encapsulates chapters 201 to 413.

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List of collectables

This is a list of popular collectables described in Wikipedia articles.

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List of English inventions and discoveries

English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in England by a person from England (that is, someone born in England - including to non-English parents - or born abroad with at least one English parent and who had the majority of their education or career in England).

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List of entities that have issued postage stamps (A–E)

This is a list of entities that have issued postage stamps at some point since stamps were introduced in 1840.

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List of entities that have issued postage stamps (F–L)

This is a list of entities that have issued postage stamps at some point since stamps were introduced in 1840.

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List of entities that have issued postage stamps (M–Z)

This is a list of entities that have issued postage stamps at some point since stamps were introduced in 1840.

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List of hobbies

This is a partial list of hobbies.

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List of Malaysian stamps

Formerly called the Federation of Malaya until 1963, Malaysia became started to issue stamps under the current name starting in 1963.

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List of people on the postage stamps of Aden

This is a list of people on stamps of Aden, South Arabia and the individual states.

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List of people on the postage stamps of Malta

This is a list of people that appear on the postage and revenue stamps of Malta.

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List of philatelic bureaus

This a list of philatelic bureaus across the world.

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List of postage stamps of India

India has a long and varied postal history and has produced a large number of postage stamps.

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List of United Kingdom commemorative stamps

This list of United Kingdom commemorative stamps deals with commemorative stamps issued by Royal Mail, the postal administration of the United Kingdom.

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Louis Jay Heath

Louis Jay Heath (July 14, 1886 – January 8, 1939) was a foreign correspondent for United Press International and one of the first organizers of the American Newspaper Guild.

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Louis Yvert

Louis Yvert (born 24 June 1866 in Paris and died 17 April 1950 in Amiens) was the co-founder of French philatelic publisher Yvert et Tellier with printer Théodule Tellier, from the family-printing company established in the 1830s by his grandfather, legitimist journalist Eugène Yvert.

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Loupe

A loupe is a simple, small magnification device used to see small details more closely.

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Mail

The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels.

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Margaret Suckley

Margaret Lynch Suckley (pronounced Sook-lee; December 20, 1891 – June 29, 1991) was a sixth cousin, intimate friend, and confidante of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as an archivist for the first American presidential library.

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Martial Caillebotte

Martial Caillebotte (1853–1910) was a French photographer and composer who was also one of the "Fathers of Philately" entered on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.

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Martin A. Armstrong

Martin Arthur Armstrong (born November 1, 1949) is an economic forecaster who uses his own computer model based on pi.

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Matthew H. Gore

Matthew H. Gore (born 1962) is a British historian, popular culturist, and educator residing in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Meinhard Michael Moser

Meinhard Michael Moser (13 March 1924 – 30 September 2002) was an Austrian mycologist.

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Merit badge (Boy Scouts of America)

Merit badges are awards earned by youth members of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), based on activities within the area of study by completing a list of periodically updated requirements.

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Michael Sefi

Michael Richard Sefi LVO (born 11 December 1943) is a British philatelist and has been the keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection since 1 January 2003.

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Miniature sheet

A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed.

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Minnesota State Fair

The Minnesota State Fair is the state fair of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Model car

A model vehicle or toy vehicle is a miniature representation of an automobile.

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Mu Zang

Mu Zang (28 December 1930 – 10 November 2011) was a Chinese mycologist.

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Muhammad Hanif Ansari

Haji Muhammad Hanif Ansari (محمد حنیف انصاری) was a politician, businessman and philatelist from Faisalabad.

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Museo del Objeto del Objeto

The Museo del Objeto del Objeto (Museum of the Object of the Object), or MODO, is a museum in Mexico City and the first museum in Mexico dedicated to design and communications.

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Mystic Stamp Company

The Mystic Stamp Company, based in Camden, New York, since 1923, is a mail-order postage stamp dealer, one of the largest in operation and notable for both its promotion of stamp collecting as a hobby and for its acquisition of the Z Grill, the rarest United States stamp.

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Nancy B. Clark

Nancy B. Clark of Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, is a philatelist who has served the philatelic community by her pioneering work with the Boy Scouts of America and her dedication to work at the American Philatelic Society.

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Nassau Street (Manhattan)

Nassau Street is a street in the Financial District of New York City.

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Natalya Kaspersky

Natalya Ivanovna Kasperskaya (Наталья Ивановна Касперская, born 5 February 1966, Moscow, Russia) -- who, in the West, uses as her surname instead the masculine form Kaspersky -- is a Russian IT entrepreneur, President of the 'InfoWatch' Group of companies, and co-founder and former CEO of antivirus security software company 'Kaspersky Lab'.

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National Philatelic Museum

The National Philatelic Museum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a short-lived not-for-profit organization intended to create awareness of and offer courses on philately.

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Nuclear Jellyfish

Nuclear Jellyfish is the eleventh novel by American author Tim Dorsey. It was released January 25, 2009.

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Oscar Berger-Levrault

Oscar François George Berger-Levrault (May 9, 1826, in Strasbourg – September 24, 1903, in Nancy) was a French philatelist.

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Oskar Gröning

Oskar Gröning (10 June 1921 – 9 March 2018) was a German SS junior squad leader who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Overprint

An overprint is an additional layer of text or graphics added to the face of a postage stamp, banknote or postal stationery after it has been printed.

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Paradox of hedonism

The paradox of hedonism, also called the pleasure paradox, refers to the practical difficulties encountered in the pursuit of pleasure.

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Peak bagging

Peak bagging or hill bagging is an activity in which hikers, climbers, and mountaineers attempt to reach a collection of summits, published in the form of a list.

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Penny Black

The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system.

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Penny Red

The Penny Red was a British postage stamp, issued in 1841.

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People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR

People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR, known shortly as the Narkompochtel, was the central organ of government of the RSFSR that was in charge of the organisation and development of the different forms of communication, including postal service.

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Philatelic cover

A philatelic cover is an envelope prepared with a stamp(s) and address and sent through the mail delivery system for the purpose of creating a collectible item.

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Philatelic International

Philatelic International (Filintern) was an international philatelic society of collector-workers.

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Philatelic Society of Pittsburgh

The Philatelic Society of Pittsburgh, also known as the Pittsburgh Stamp Club, is a philatelic organization established to serve stamp collectors in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area.

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Philately

Philately is the study of stamps and postal history and other related items.

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Philip Mathias Wolsieffer

Philip Mathias Wolsieffer (May 28, 1857 – October 20, 1934), of Chicago and Philadelphia, was a stamp dealer and auctioneer who sold stamps and philatelic items during the early years of stamp collecting.

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Philipp von Ferrary

Philip Ferrari de La Renotière (January 11, 1850 – May 20, 1917) was a noted stamp collector, assembling probably the most complete worldwide collection that ever existed, or is likely to exist.

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PHQ card

PHQ cards are postcards issued by the British Post Office depicting the designs of their commemorative stamps.

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Plate number

A plate number is a number printed in the margin of a sheet or roll of postage stamps which shows the printing plate used to print the stamps.

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Post & Tele Museum

Post & Tele Museum was Denmark’s national museum of post and telecommunications from 1913 to 2017.

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Postage due

Postage due is the term used for mail sent with insufficient postage.

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Postage stamp

A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage.

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Postage stamp design

Postage stamp design is the activity of graphic design as applied to postage stamps.

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Postage stamp paper

Postage stamp paper is the foundation or substrate of the postage stamp to which the ink for the stamp's design is applied to one side and the adhesive is applied to the other.

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Postage stamp reprint

In philately a reprint is a new printing of a postage stamp from the original plates.

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Postage stamp separation

For postage stamps, separation is the means by which individual stamps are made easily detachable from each other.

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Postage stamps and postal history of Afghanistan

15-poul imperf stamp of 1927, first use of Roman letters. Parliament House on the 15p of 1939. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Afghanistan.

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Postage stamps and postal history of Armenia

The postage stamps and postal history of Armenia describes the history of postage stamps and postal systems in Armenia.

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Postage stamps and postal history of Australia

This is an overview of the postage stamps and postal history of Australia.

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Postage stamps and postal history of Tannu Tuva

The People's Republic of Tannu Tuva issued postage stamps between 1926 and 1936.

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Postage stamps and postal history of Tanzania

10-cent flag, 19651-shilling stamp of 1965, used at Shinyanga probably in 1968. Note that the postmark still gives "Tanganyika" as country name. 5-shilling stamp of 1980 depicting lion and cubs, used in 1985 The story of the postage stamps and postal history of Tanzania begins with German East Africa, which was occupied by British forces during World War I. After the war, the territory came under British rule, was named Tanganyika and issued stamps under that name until after a union with Zanzibar in 1964.

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Postage stamps and postal history of the Indian states

For postage stamps and postal history of India, see Postage stamps and postal history of India The postage stamps and postal history of the Indian Princely States is a complicated subject; British rule was not a uniform exercise of authority, and many states ran their own postal services.

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Postage stamps of Ireland

The postage stamps of Ireland are issued by the postal operator of the independent Irish state.

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Postal history

Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems.

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Postcard

A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope.

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Presentation pack

A presentation pack is a folder, produced for philatelists and stamp collectors, that contains a full set of a new stamp issue.

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Presidential Issue

The Presidential Issue, nicknamed the Prexies by collectors, is the series of definitive postage stamps issued in the United States in 1938, featuring all 29 U.S. presidents who were in office between 1789 and 1928, from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge.

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Primitive (philately)

In philately, primitives, also called natives, are postage stamps that were crudely designed and printed as compared with the sophisticated productions of industrialized countries such as the United Kingdom or the United States.

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Quick Before They Catch Us

Quick Before They Catch Us was a 1966 British action/adventure children's television series.

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Robert Masterman Stainforth

R.

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Robert Obojski

Robert Obojski (born October 1929) is a writer of over 50 books on baseball, coin and stamp collecting and memorabilia.

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Robert Zoellner

Robert Emil Zoellner (April 26, 1932 – December 23, 2014) was an American investor and stamp collector who was the second person to have formed a complete collection of United States postage stamps, following Benjamin K. Miller, who had assembled a complete collection pre-1925.

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Rotary printing press

A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the images to be printed are curved around a cylinder.

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Sacramento Philatelic Society

The Sacramento Philatelic Society is a philatelic organization serving stamp collectors in the Sacramento area of California.

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Sadettin Dilbilgen

Sadettin Dilbilgen was a philatelist who was born in Ottoman Macedonia.

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Sadie Peterson Delaney

Sadie Peterson Delaney (1889– May 4, 1958) was the chief librarian of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama, for 34 years.

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San Jose Stamp Club

The San Jose Stamp Club is a philatelic organization intended to serve stamp collectors in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Sarah Logan Wister Starr

Sarah Logan Wister Starr (1873 - August 21, 1956) was a prominent member of Philadelphia society in the early 1900s and a dedicated humanitarian.

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Scandinavia Philatelic Society

The Scandinavia Philatelic Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1952 as the Scandinavian Collectors Club, to promote the collection of Stamps, Postcards and Postal History of greater Scandinavia.

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Scandinavian Collectors Club

The Scandinavian Collectors Club is a United States-based philatelic society dedicated to the collection and study of the postage stamps and postal history of the Scandinavia region, including the geographical regions of Åland, Aunus, the Danish West Indies, Denmark, the Faroes, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Karelia, North Ingermanland, Norway, Slesvig, and Sweden.

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Scott catalogue

The Scott Catalogue of postage stamps, published by Scott Publishing Co, a subsidiary of Amos Media, is updated annually and lists all the stamps of the entire world which its editors recognize as issued for postal purposes.

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Scouts on Stamps Society International

Since the advent of Scouting in 1907, Scouts have been depicted on the postage stamps of almost every nation during different times of their political development.

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Self-adhesive stamp

A self-adhesive stamp is a postage stamp with a pressure-sensitive adhesive that does not require moistening in order to adhere to paper.

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Semi-postal stamp

A semi-postal stamp or semipostal stamp, also known as a charity stamp, is a postage stamp issued to raise money for a particular purpose (such as a charitable cause) and sold at a premium over the postal value.

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Sharjah

Sharjah (الشارقة; Gulf Arabic: aš-šārja) is the third largest and third most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area.

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Sheet of stamps

A sheet of stamps or press sheet is a unit of stamps as printed, usually on large sheets of paper based on the size of the printing plate, that are separated into panes that are sold at post offices.

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Sigmund Friedl

Sigmund Friedl (1851, Lipník nad Bečvou, Moravia – 1914, Vienna) was one of the most famous Austrian philatelists.

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Simon Garfield

Simon Frank Garfield (born 19 March 1960"", Debrett's, retrieved 6 July 2011) is a British journalist and non-fiction author.

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Singapore Philatelic Museum

The Singapore Philatelic Museum (Chinese: 新加坡集邮博物馆) is a museum about the postal history of Singapore and its stamps.

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Sir John Wilson, 2nd Baronet

Sir John Mitchell Harvey Wilson, 2nd Baronet (10 October 1898Bateman, Robert. Stamp collectors' who's who. London: Stanley Gibbons, 1960, p. 94. – 6 February 1975) was a British philatelist and Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection from 1938 to 1969.

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South Miami Stamp Club

The South Miami Stamp Club (SMSC) is a philatelic organization serving stamp collectors in the South Miami/Homestead, Florida, area.

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Soviet Philatelist

Soviet Philatelist or Sovetskii Filatelist was a Soviet central philatelic magazine published in 1922–1932 by the All-Russian Society of Philatelists.

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Spencer Fullerton Baird

Spencer Fullerton Baird (February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator.

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Spring bud

Spring bud is the color that used to be called spring green before the X11 web color spring green was formulated in 1987 when the X11 colors were first promulgated.

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Stamp album

A stamp album is a book, often loose-leafed (to allow for expansion), in which a collection of postage stamps may be stored and displayed.

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Stamp catalog

A stamp catalog (or stamp catalogue) is a catalog of postage stamp types with descriptions and prices.

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Stamp Collecting (magazine)

Stamp Collecting was a weekly magazine of stamp collecting published in London from 1913 to 1984.

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Stamp condition

The value of a postage stamp in the stamp collecting market depends on various features of its condition.

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Stamp dealer

A stamp dealer is a company or an individual who deals in stamps and philatelic products.

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Stamp hinge

In philately, stamp hinges, or mounts, are small, folded, transparent, rectangular pieces of paper coated with a mild gum.

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Stamp tongs

Stamp tongs are tweezers used to handle postage stamps.

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Stamper brothers

Brothers Tim and Chris Stamper founded the British video game companies Ultimate Play the Game and Rare.

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Stamps on stamps

Stamps on stamps is a philatelic term for depicting images of postage stamps on postage stamps.

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Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers

From 1886 to 1920, steamboats ran on the upper reaches of the Columbia and Kootenay in the Rocky Mountain Trench, in western North America.

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Stewart Island

Stewart Island/Rakiura (commonly called Stewart Island) is the third-largest island of New Zealand.

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Stockbook

Stockbooks are storage books used by stamp collectors for storage of postage stamps placed in pockets, on pages, for easy viewing.

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SubTropolis

SubTropolis is a, manmade cave in the bluffs above the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, that is claimed to be the world's largest underground storage facility.

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Tamotsu Murayama

was a Japanese journalist, lecturer at Waseda University, and Director of the Boy Scouts of Japan.

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Test stamp

A test stamp is a label resembling a postage stamp that is used by postal authorities for testing equipment.

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Théodule Tellier

Théodule Tellier (circa 1856 – March 1922) was a French printer and the co-founder with Louis Yvert of French philatelic publisher Yvert et Tellier.

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The Koala Brothers

The Koala Brothers is a British stop-motion animated children's television show that features the adventures of two koala brothers, Frank and Buster, as they seek to help their neighbours in a sleepy town in the Australian Outback.

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The New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British sitcom made in the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative Party Government of the period.

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The Second Invasion from Mars

The Second Invasion from Mars (Второе нашествие марсиан), subtitled Diary of a Sane (Russian: Записки здравомыслящего), is a relatively short 1968 science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky that portrays two weeks from the life of a common person in highly unusual circumstances.

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The Stamp Collector

The Stamp Collector is a children's picture book (recommended for ages 8 and up) by Jennifer Lanthier and François Thisdale.

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The Stamp Collector's Record

The Stamp Collector's Record was the first journal of stamp collecting published on the North American continent.

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The Wrecker (Stevenson novel)

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.

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Theresa Maria Clark

Theresa Maria Clark (c.1890-1953) of New York City, was a philatelist and philatelic editor.

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Thomas Tapling

Thomas Keay Tapling (30 October 1855 – 11 April 1891) was an English businessman and politician.

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Timbres magazine

Timbres magazine is a French monthly magazine about philately and stamp collecting.

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Topical stamp collecting

Topical or thematic stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps relating to a particular subject or concept.

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Training stamp

A training stamp, is a label resembling a postage stamp that is used by postal authorities to train postal workers.

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Transportation coils

The Transportation coils series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service between 1981 and 1995.

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Turkey, North Carolina

Turkey is a town in Sampson County, North Carolina, United States.

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Tweezers

Tweezers are small tools used for picking up objects too small to be easily handled with the human fingers.

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U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13

The U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 were the first such stamps issued by the U.S. Post Office Department and consisted of twelve denominations to pay the postage on parcels weighing 16 ounces and more, with each denomination printed in the same color of "carmine-rose".

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U.S. Special Delivery (postal service)

U.S. Special Delivery was a postal service paid for with additional postage for urgent letters and postal packets which are delivered in less time than by standard or first class mail service.

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United States Post Office (Patchogue, New York)

The U.S. Post Office in Patchogue, New York is located at 170 East Main Street in the Suffolk County village.

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United States Post Office (Riverhead, New York)

Riverhead Post Office is a United States post office located at 1210 West Main Street in Riverhead, New York.

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Upside Down (2012 film)

Upside Down (French: Un monde à l'envers) is a 2012 Canadian-French romantic fantasy written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas, starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst.

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US Regular Issues of 1922–31

The Regular Issues of 1922–31 were a series of 27 U.S. postage stamps issued for general everyday use by the U.S. Post office.

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Vickrey auction

A Vickrey auction is a type of sealed-bid auction.

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Victor E. Engstrom

Victor E. Engstrom (20 October 1913 – July 1, 2000) was a philatelist known for his knowledge and collections of stamps of Nordic countries.

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Victor Guazzelli

Victor Guazzelli (19 March 1920 – 1 June 2004) was a Roman Catholic bishop.

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Violet (Peanuts)

Violet Gray is a fictional character featured in the long-running syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz.

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W. Hamilton Barnum

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W. Wilson Hulme II

Woodrow Wilson Hulme II (June 14, 1946 – January 10, 2007) was a philatelist noted for his work in advancing the appreciation of stamp collecting, especially by his work at the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Walter A. Coslet

Walter Allen Coslet (born in Lewistown, Montana on October 31, 1922, died in Helena, Montana on November 29, 1996) was a well known science fiction fan, collector, and fanzine publisher as well as a charter member of the International Society of Bible Collectors, writing many articles for the society's publications.

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Walter J. D. Annand

Walter "Gus" John Dinnie Annand (21 August 1920–26 August 2002) was a Scottish aeronautical research engineer, academic and author.

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Walter R. McCoy

Walter R. McCoy (January 12, 1880 – June 20, 1952), of New York City, was an advocate of the hobby of stamp collecting and created award-winning collections of his own.

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Washington Stamp Collectors Club

Washington Stamp Collectors Club is an organization of stamp collectors in the Washington, D.C. area, serving collectors in the district, northern Virginia, and Maryland.

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William Penn Brown

William Penn Brown (1841–1929), of New York City, was an early pioneer in the hobby of stamp collecting.

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Wine Post

The Wine Post, also known as New Zealand Wine Post, is a privately owned postal service in New Zealand.

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Wish list

A wish list or want list is an itemization of goods or services that a person or organization desires.

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Yvert et Tellier

Yvert et Tellier is a postage stamp dealer and a philatelic publishing company founded in 1895 in the northern French city of Amiens, where the head office is still located.

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1935 Irish 2d coil stamp

The Rare 2d Coil was an experimental vertical coil stamp, denominated 2d, issued by the Irish Post Office in 1935 and is one of the scarcest, and most valuable, Irish stamps.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_collecting

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